Lancashire County Council Service Changes

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RE: Lancashire County Council Service Changes
May 2016 Changes:

LANCASTER SERVICES

X55 Lancaster – Windermere (STC leaflet)
From 20 May 2016 Stagecoach in Cumbria will withdraw all journeys on this service. Alternative Service 555 will continue to operate.

WYRE SERVICES
22 Blackpool – Cleveleys – Fleetwood (OAK leaflet)
From 16 May 2016 Catch22bus Ltd will revise the route and timetable to operate between Blackpool, Cleveleys and Fleetwood. A Sunday service through to Fleetwood Freeport will be introduced. Earlier journeys to/from Fleetwood will also feature on the Saturday timetable. Intermediate journey times will be adjusted to improve overall service reliability.

23 Cleveleys – Cleveleys Park – Thornton – Cleveleys (OAK leaflet)
From 16 May 2016 Catch22bus Ltd will introduce this new service following requests from the local community. This new circular service will start & finish at Cleveleys Bus Station serving Cleveleys Avenue, Central Avenue, Mayfield Avenue, Pheasants Wood Drive, Fleetwood Road and West Drive.

24 Cleveleys – Thornton – Poulton (OAK leaflet)
From 16 May 2016 Catch22bus Ltd will revise the timetable, adjusting journey times to improve overall service reliability. At the Poulton end, the service will be extended to operate a one-way loop linking Highcross, Hardhorn Road & Carr Head Lane before returning to Poulton Church for its onward journey
to Cleveleys.

PRESTON SERVICES
1/2 Preston Park & Ride (PBT leaflet)
From 23 May 2016 Rotala Preston Bus will operate Park & Ride services in Preston on a commercial basis without subsidy from Lancashire County Council. The following revisions will be introduced:
Service 1 - Walton-le-Dale P&R will return to a fully dedicated service between the Walton-le-Dale site and Preston Jacson Street only.
Services 2/89 - Portway/Hartington Road P&R will be covered by frequent Service 89 diverted into the Portway site, with longer opening hours. Additional Service 2 morning peak journeys (between 0700 & 0900) will run from Hartington Road on Monday to Friday to ensure capacity for P&R users.

RIBBLE VALLEY, BURNLEY & PENDLE SERVICES
From 1 May 2016, Transdev Burnley & Pendle is making a number of wide ranging changes to its services throughout Ribble Valley, Burnley & Pendle areas.

Among the changes is the standardisation and simplification of Transdev's main core Mainline bus route linking Ribble Valley, Burnley & Pendle areas. Furthermore Service X43, The Witch Way route linking Burnley & Pendle through to Manchester, is being expanded through Pendle to Skipton, offering faster journeys from Skipton, Barnoldswick & Colne through to Burnley and a direct service to Manchester.

Full details are as follows:
Mainline 20 – 29 (Clitheroe/Accrington/Padiham/Burnley/Nelson/Colne/Barnoldswick/Skipton/Keighley)
• New numbers M1, M2, M3 and M4 will replace numbers 20-29 to make things much simpler and easier to understand – see below;
• The Barnoldswick-Skipton section will now be served by an extended, faster Witch Way X43 – see below;
• Buses will still run up to every 7 minutes on the main section of route between Padiham and Colne during the day on Monday to Saturday, with similar frequencies as now on all sections;
• The number of evening journeys have been reduced, however a number of journeys previously tendered by Lancashire County Council have been retained.

Mainline M1: Padiham (Bridge Inn) – Burnley – Nelson – Colne – Earby – Barnoldswick (the old 22 to Padiham & 28 to Barnoldswick)
• Every 30 minutes for most of the day Mon-Sat (hourly on Sundays);
• Some early morning and evening journeys will continue to serve Silentnight at Barnoldswick.

Mainline M2: Clitheroe – Padiham (Slade Lane) – Burnley – Nelson – Colne (the old 26/27 to Clitheroe &
24 to Colne)
• Every 30 minutes for most of the day Mon-Sat (hourly on Sundays);
• This will run direct from Clitheroe on all journeys, via Whalley, Read, Padiham (Slade Lane) and Padiham Road to Burnley and on to Colne via Brierfield and Nelson;
• Sabden and Read Whins Lane will no longer be served.

Mainline M3: Accrington – Huncoat – Hapton - Padiham – Burnley – Nelson – Colne – Trawden (the old 23 to Accrington & 21 to Trawden)
• Every 30 minutes for most of the day Mon-Sat (every hour on Sundays between Accrington and Colne, and every 2 hours to Trawden);
• It will run to/from the new Accrington bus station when it opens later in May

Mainline M4: Burnley – Nelson – Colne – Cross Hills – Keighley (the old 25)
• Every 30 minutes for most of the day (every 2 hours on Sundays);
• On Monday to Saturday the last bus from Burnley to Keighley will now run later at 2028, with the last bus back also running later, now leaving Keighley at 2211.

Burnley Connect 8 Burnley – Bacup
• All journeys will be withdrawn. Rosso will provide a replacement service, numbered 463 – see below for more details.

Burnley Connect 9 Burnley – Accrington
• Most journeys will be revised to run 10 minutes earlier throughout.

Witch Way X43: Nelson – Burnley – Rawtenstall – Prestwich – Manchester -
• New fast buses at rush hour. In response to customer research, Transdev will run 3 quicker journeys each way (Monday to Friday), calling at limited stops between Burnley and Rawtenstall and then completely non-stop to Manchester, Shudehill and continuing on to Chorlton Street. It will only take just
over an hour between Burnley Bus Station and Shudehill on these new fast journeys;
• Extended to Colne & Skipton via the M65 every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime: Every other Witch Way journey will now head beyond Burnley, non-stop along the M65 to Colne, Barnoldswick and Skipton. This will offer much faster trips from Skipton and Colne to Burnley compared to now;
• There will still be direct buses from Nelson to and from Manchester for morning and evening rush hour,
but during the day, The Witch Way will no longer serve Nelson. The Mainline runs every 7 minutes during the day along this section with connections at Burnley Bus Station - through tickets will be available;
• Buses will still run every 15 minutes during the day between Manchester and Burnley via Prestwich and Rawtenstall;
• On Sundays, all buses will be called X43 for the bus extension through to Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales. The number 872 will no longer be used, although the time and route stays the same.

ROSSENDALE SERVICES
463 Bacup – Weir – Burnley (Leaflet 78)
From 3 May 2016 Rosso will revise the route and timetable to extend the service through to Burnley via Weir. This will replace Transdev Burnley & Pendle's withdrawal of Service 8.

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/media/89822...y-2016.pdf